No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
dlib has 199K monthly downloads and 14K GitHub stars. Version 20.0.1, first published in 2015.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is used by 79 tracked packages, including face-recognition, idvpackage and lightcnn-pytorch.
GitHub topics include machine-learning, deep-learning and c-plus-plus.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
88
Adoption
62
Community
85
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
9 days ago
Monthly downloads
198,688
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
198,688
Stars
14,414
Stars per 1k downloads
72.55
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
6,320
Month daily avg
6,623
Momentum
-4.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Boost Software License
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
99 days ago
Total releases
41
Releases/year
3.8
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
199
Monthly downloads
198,688
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
94
Issue Burden
2.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
90d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
4.0K
Windows
901
macOS
176
Python Versions
3.12
37.5%
1.8K
3.10
29.3%
1.4K
3.11
14.2%
673
3.13
10.3%
491
3.14
8.7%
415
Top Countries
1.
US
2.6K
US
2.
TH
963
TH
3.
IN
379
IN
4.
CN
171
CN
5.
BR
107
BR
6.
SG
72
SG
7.
JP
64
JP
8.
DE
61
DE
9.
ID
54
ID
10.
GB
51
GB
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
79
- face-recognition
- idvpackage
- lightcnn-pytorch
- futurevision
- morphace
- face-detector
- aitracker
- face-recognition-ng
- libreface
- largest-frontal-face-detector
- face-vet
- codemao
- face-cropping
- visionlib
- dg-util
- face-sort
- face-analysis-kit
- colortransferlib
- average-facer
- materia
- inafaceanalyzer
- ekyc
- civic2verifierrr
- pyannote-video
- openpibo-python
- golden-eagle
- face-processor
- facereg
- alignfaces
- photoidmagick
- face-sdlr
- drowsiness-validator
- cv-aid
- face-detector-plus
- capa-sdk
- dronevis
- naun
- democlassi
- face-eevee
- nsface-python
- facelift
- pyfacy
- openfaceid
- face-orientation-prep-natchapolt
- face-auth
- lipo
- optracker
- howdy
- learnblock
- data-modori
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Boost Software License
First Release
September 27, 2015
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
20.0.1
Total Releases
41
Contributors
199
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Davis King
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh